LADD’S boxing gym will send a record eight fighters to this weekend’s Australian Club Championships in Adelaide, aiming to continue their success at recent events.
The Club Championships run from Friday to Sunday and will feature 300 boxers from across Australia and internationally.
For the first time, boxers will be permitted to wear their club colours instead of the traditional red and blue attire and clubs will be able to display their club flags ringside.
Coach Jackson Ladd said he was looking forward to the year’s biggest event.
“Boxers and teams will come from all over Australia with their clubs instead of representing the state they will represent their individual club, it is a massive event for boxing,” he said.
“This year is even bigger because we have four countries coming from outside of Australia to compete, we will have the biggest team out of Mildura and I am looking forward to it.”
Ladd said the crew had been working hard and were expecting good results at the nation’s biggest club boxing tournament.
“Training has been tough they have been training hard and everyone is fit which is really good,” he said.
“It has been a pretty long camp, after the last fight we had a few days off then we were straight back into it we didn’t really have much time between fights to rest and recover, which makes it difficult.”
“You get a lot of drop off where you get injuries and people get sick but we have been pretty lucky to get this far through and not have any problems so it has been a really good camp.”
The fighters representing Ladd’s will be siblings Henry, Gab and Lainesia Toutai, Luke Hutchinson, Charlie Cooper, Hamish Berry, Robert Burns and the club’s youngest fighter, Ruby Darcy.
